rayfish

And, once, a huge rayfish, measuring a score of feet across the tips, passed within a few yards.

Bunches of Knuckles 2010

Mauki calmly packs his trade box with his few trinkets and places the rayfish-hide mitten on his hand.

“Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

And, once, a huge rayfish, measuring a score of feet across the tips, passed within a few yards.

Bunches of Knuckles 1913

Mauki must work for this degenerate brute as a cook and house-boy and from the start Bunster delights in his cruelty toward the native — striking him with his fist, burning him with a cigar, ripping the china cup handle from Mauki's nose, scalding him with hot coffee, using a mitten made from the skin of a rayfish (employed as a rasp to smooth down canoe braces and paddles) to rake the hide off Mauki's arms, trying to force him to betray his tambos (taboos), then beating him when he refuses.

“Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008